Themes
A series of themes and collections to help you explore York's history.
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Social Centre of the North
York had changed. Attempts to...
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Post War York
The latter half of the twentieth cen...
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Who Were the Vikings?
Vikings were sea-borne Scandinavians...
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Life in Elizabethan York
In many respects the Elizabethan per...
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A City Left Behind
The industrial revolution had far le...
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Horse Racing in York
' Every year there be more noble lo...
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Anglo Scandinavian York
The period of York's history between...
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King and Court in York
April 1642: When the London mob made...
Theme Items
A selection of items to explore.
- The Bar Convent
- York and Ripon Diocesan Training School for Masters
- Bronze Seal Matrix of the Merchant Adventurers' Almshouse
- Sixties York
- The Dissolution of the Monasteries
- Joseph Aloysius Hansom
- Industrial Upheaval
- The Cawood Sword
- Treasurer's House
- Seal of Snarrus the Tax Collector
- Cumberland House, King's Staith
- Bones of a Roman Combatant
- Viking Silk Cap
- Fire in the Minster
- Water Lanes
- Fourteen Centuries of Learning
- Kirkgate: Victorian Street